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Professor Murder Rides the Subway is a forgotten slice of dance punk perfection

I recently dug out my CDs and started reripping them all. I've found a few forgotten gems in there, but few hit harder for me than the beautifully concise Professor Murder Rides the Subway EP. There was a period of time in the mid-aughts in NYC where it seemed like every indie band wanted you […]

Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer

Article URL: https://www.righto.com/2026/08/spacelab-core-memory.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49502214

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Enormous 12TB Steam leak includes abandoned Half-Life 2: Episode 3 assets

Over 12 terabytes of data, containing builds of every game uploaded to Steam between 2003 and 2013, has been leaked. We don't know everything in the archives yet because of its massive size. But people have already dug up assets related to the canceled Half-Life 2: Episode 3, content cut from Portal 2, and a […]

The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change

Article URL: https://economist.com/by-invitation/2026/08/30/the-world-may-have-less-time-than-it-thinks-on-climate-change

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49501791

Points: 76

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Why open source rocks – a new SM750 (Silicon Motion GPU) HDMI Driver

Article URL: https://github.com/KodeMunkie/sm750hdmifb

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49501611

Points: 37

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Liux’s Big microcar bets on sustainability to take on Chinese rivals

The Liux Big microcar is made in Spain. The startup thinks it can compete in a crowded market with its tiny electric car built around sustainability.

Why it matters that President Trump just dialed into a NASA news conference

With just one more major mission upcoming, NASA's science programs need a boost.

Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Technical AES

Article URL: https://www.artie.com/careers?ashby_jid=e87b84d2-78b3-41a3-937a-47e83643cdf1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49500471

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Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem

Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — but it's a bet on a fuel source that's already triggering lawsuits and health studies everywhere his (and others') turbines have gone in.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches to study dark matter and dark energy

After funding struggles and a name change, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been successfully launched. It will now make a three-month, one-million-mile journey to its orbit at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2) beyond the Moon. From this vantage point, Roman will conduct an unprecedented survey of the universe. Its field of view […]